Louis Frederic Lebet , Neuchatel, awarded two medals at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the same year that Humbert Ramuz of Chaux-de-Fonds was granted English Patent No 2388 for a system of automatic winding utilising the opening and closing of the cover of a hunter cased watch. Lebet is almost certainly the actual maker of these movements and the firm went on to win a Diploma at the Swiss National Exhibition, held in Zurich in 1883, for perfecting a stem-wind system - this may be similar to the English Patent No 3945 taken out by Benjamin Haas junior, a Paris based watchmaker, in December 1873. A similar watch is illustrated and described in "Antique Watches" by Terence Camerer-Cuss, Woodbridge 1976, page 244. #42001